{"id":3636,"date":"2026-03-28T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:01:39","slug":"name-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"Name Changes to Cities in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Constantinople<\/span><\/strong>, Turkey\u2019s largest city, changed its name to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Istanbul<\/strong><\/span> in 1930. Also, Turkey\u2019s capital and second largest city, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Angora<\/strong><\/span>, changed its name to <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ankara<\/span><\/strong>. Children can learn more about Turkey in general at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/geography\/countries\/article\/turkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constantinople, Turkey\u2019s largest city, changed its name to Istanbul in 1930. Also, Turkey\u2019s capital and second largest city, Angora, changed its name to Ankara. Children can learn more about Turkey in general at: Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5324,3595,3222,2259,3594,3592],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5324","tag-angora","tag-ankara","tag-constantinople","tag-istanbul","tag-march-28","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26379,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/26379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}